FITNESS + NUTRITION - Wanna Bet?

I'm excited to be hosting a challenge group to give you – my friends and family – a chance to earn a share of the $1-$3 million pot from Beachbody just for sharing your workouts 3x a week and drinking Shakeology 5x a week!

This is a really cool chance to be rewarded for your consistency. And consistency over time is when you feel the best and get results.

"What you do EVERY DAY
matters more than what you do
EVERY ONCE in awhile."

See official rules: http://bit.ly/2b6JSGU

Here's how:

1) Chat with me about your goals for this fall...weight loss? 5k? Gain strength? Find a way to love fitness for yourself?

2) Participate in my fitness online studio with a program that meets your goals, be coached by myself and my team, and be held accountable to others like yourself to workouts and clean eating 5 days a week for 5 weeks minimum. (Sept 5-Oct. 2)

**You'll want to allow 5-7 days for your Shakeology to ship after ordering, and you'll need it starting September 5th to qualify!**

3) Log your workouts and Shakeology in the My Challenge Tracker app.

4) Complete steps 1-3 and WIN your share of the pot with others who do the same.

I'm looking forward to seeing who's willing to take this bet and sweat with me in September!

What do you have to lose?!?

MIND + LIFE - Funky Friday

The norm this summer has been to be at the lake Thursday, therefore waking up at camp on Friday morning.  Not today.  Today I'm finishing packing the camper to head out...hopefully by noonish.  It's definitely more relaxing to be sitting at camp set up during a summer rain shower than trying to get it loaded while trying to make a minimal mess.  Pretty much ready to rock at this point, but I am going to get my workout and a shower in before we leave, which brings me to part II of what I'll call "Funky Friday."

Yesterday was one of my best nutritional days in a week, but I went to bed feeling crummy and woke up feeling like a lead balloon, which is so not the case typically after a "good" day.  BUT my week...not my weekend...was not very pretty.  My trend has been kick ass during the week, feel awesome going in to the weekend, and then be right back where I started the previous week by the end of the weekend. Which I guess is what we'd call maintenance, and is my bare minimum goal for this summer and lake season, but it's still a vicious cycle...maybe if our boat wasn't name "Pour decisions" I'd have better luck...(that's a lame excuse, I know!)

But going back to how I feel this morning...the Insanity workouts are down right TOUGH and I'm sure (hoping) causing extra inflammation and swelling in my body.  I'm trying to push through this little funk today with positive thoughts though.  I've replaying Shaun T's commentary on my head from a podcast I listened to last week about how everyone's results are different and males tend to see quicker results than females. He went on to say that with the female test group participants, some of them were getting so frustrated throughout the process, but then in the last two weeks of the program they dropped anywhere from 10-25 lbs, so he was begging all of the listeners to STICK WITH IT. And that's what I'm going to do.  My body is getting firmer, my muscles are getting stronger, and I'm feeling rejuvenated mentally as well!

Whatever you may be doing, or thinking about doing, remember the results aren't going to happen overnight, and your body may actually respond "negatively" before the magic starts to happen.

AND NUTRITION.  I have no doubt I'd be kickin' tail if I really dialed in my nutrition and followed the meal plan that came with the program...but I'm going to go enjoy another weekend of "pour decisions" and then work my booty off again next week!

Have a great weekend friends!!

FITNESS: Finding Motivation

COME ON Y'ALL, LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I don't remember for sure what made me start listening to the Trust & Believe with Shaun T podcast again, but it has been such an amazing source of insight and motivation for me!  I relate to so much of what he says!  And in his words:

"When you talk about fitness DVDs I think that they also can work, but you obviously have to relate to the person who is actually being an instructor on the DVDs or whatever.....  But it all starts with you actually believing that you can actually do it. You have to do the work. Period." (Being Gay Kept Me Fit)

I was doing ChaLEAN Extreme (a workout by my second favorite trainer, Chalene Johnson) when I started listening to Shaun T again, and I knew after listening to a few that I needed him in my fitness life, so I started doing INSANITY via Beachbody on Demand.  I did the initial Fit Test on July 11, and completed the "Day 15" Fit Test today.  If interested, you can see my progress here.

And if you're really keeping up, you'll notice it's been more than 15 days since I started.  We're spoiled with our schedules and lake season typically finds us with several 4 day weekends.  With the intensity of the program, realistically I know I'll have a hard time finding space and time to get the workouts in at camp, so instead I've opted for running or biking at camp.  I had to go in to the workout schedule knowing I wouldn't be able to stick to it "to a T."  If I tried, I'd feel like a failure and give up, I know this much about myself.  I reformatted the schedule in a list format rather than a calendar format so I could do the workouts in order and still complete the whole program though.

 

100% for real, if I left it as a calendar and did it workout by workout, mentally I would feel so behind doing Friday's workout on Tuesday it would discourage me to the point of quitting!

Committing to Insanity is the first step I'm taking to regain control of my Beachbody Coaching business.  Our CEO commented in a podcast on Monday:

"What program are you doing? Start to finish.
I’m talking to you veteran coaches or coaches who have been around awhile and think you can get away with representing the product without being the proof that you’re doing the product. But I’m telling you right now..
People know. People know if you’re for real or not."  -Carl Daikeler

The products work, if I work! And I want people to notice and get just as excited as I am about the results.

Before I wrap this up, I just want to go back to where I started this with relating to your trainer, whether in person or via a fitness program...if you're not "feeling" your workout / routine, FIND one you do, and get the results you want.

My ability to relate with Shaun T goes beyond his workouts...here are just a few examples that come to mind:

"In general, I like working out by myself.  Like I hate, with a capital 'P' Passion, working out with people.  Like I can't stand it.  Like I think it distracts me. ...I don't like planning time to workout with poeple, I like waking up, like sometimes we workout with a group of people, and like, not saying I don't ever hold people up, like sometimes I have to go to the bathroom, you know what I'm saying, pee at the last moment because I'm nervous, or um, you know where there's other people who are like 'I'm finishing something up before I come,' because for me when it's time for me to workout I only have a small space of motivation, like there's a very small window of opportunity for me to feel motivated, and the minute that opportunity goes away I'm like, 'I don't feel working out. I don't feel like working out anymore, and I definitely don't want to workout with a group of people because you guys, I'm waiting for you or you're waiting for me, you know what I'm sayin', so I'm not saying it's their fault, it could be my fault too."

"I like to stay attractive for myself. At the end of the day, I like being fit."

"Why did you let yourself go? Because the honeymoon phase is over?  Well, I still think you need to stay healthy and look good. And I totally think your internal fitness motivation aids in your sexual activity when you are in a relationship because what happens is, it's like a domino effect, when you start to let go of your fitness level, some people, and I say a lot of people, start to become self-conscious of certain things like, 'ah, you know, I'm gaining a little gut" or "I'm starting to get a little saggy in the booty area" or whatever the case may be and then you start obsessing in the mirror and then you stop liking what you're seeing so your spouse is laying next to you and they're sitting there like, 'I wanna do a little something,' and you're like 'NO!' And so, the reality is, while I stay fit the majority of the time, with my hand being hurt, like I, I feel like my upper body looks like jello, and I'm just like oh my god this is horrible, and so it's hard for me to stay sexual because I just like, I want to be...you know, and it really doesn't come down to the way I look, it comes down to the effort that I'm putting in to being fit, and I'm not even going to put that effort in to that part of my body, so I'm like 'ugh!'"

AND, how about some super-exhausted-from-Insanity pictures...